Easing the prerequisite for maths is one way of boosting student numbers, science dean Stephen Walker says. Photo: Australian Financial Review.
The chair of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans, Moses Tade,
who is also engineering dean at Curtin University, said universities
were using "many innovative ways" to teach maths to engineering students
who were not up to the necessary standard. He said his fellow
engineering deans would "refute" the notion that "you can't do
engineering without having done intermediate maths".
Figures released last week show that 41% of Australian universities
which offer engineering do not require students to have studied
intermediate maths in year 12. And, to the knowledge of the Australian
Mathematical Sciences Institute which produced the study, no university
engineering faculties require students to have studied advanced maths in
year 12, even though engineering courses are highly mathematical.
Source: University World News
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Sunday, August 16, 2015
Deans defend enrolling students with scant maths
Top educators have defended Australian universities' move away from
requiring mathematics as a prerequisite for science, engineering and
commerce degrees in which mathematical knowledge plays a key part,
writes Tim Dodd for Australian Financial Review.